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CARL DREYER COLLECTION (DVD)
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This set includes three of Dreyer's greatest films, plus a fine documentary on the perfectionist filmmaker. Day of Wrath (1943, 97 mins.) premiered during the blackest period of Nazi occupation of Denmark and tells a story of witchcraft in 1623 with great atmospheric intensity. Ordet (1955, 125 mins.) is Dreyer's brilliant portrayal of the conflict between organized religion and personal belief. Gertrud (1964, 116 mins.), Dreyer's last film, is a rigorous, poignant and profound tale of a woman's life crippled b y an inability to compromise. Finally, Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier (1995, 94 mins.) is Torben Skodt Jensen's thorough survey of the director's brilliant career as well as an intimate glimpse into his personality. Each disc also comes with supplemental features: interviews with some of the films' stars, photo still galleries, and archival footage of Dreyer himself. All films are in Danish (My Metier also in French) with optional English subtitles, and presented in their original aspect ratios. Carl Theodor Dreyer/Torben Skodt Jensen---Denmark---1943-1995---432 mins.
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DER VAR ENGANG
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The Danish Film Institute has gathered and restored all the extant portions of Carl Theodor Dreyer's uncharacteristically light, almost slapstick fairy tale. Further distancing himself from Griffith, Once Upon a Time shows Dreyer's concern for mise-en-scene elevated above character-driven drama. Photographed by George Schneevoigt. Starring Clara Pontoppidan, Svend Methling, and Peter Jerndorff. Silent with English intertitles. Carl Theodor Dreyer---Denmark---1922---75 mins.
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LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK
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Dreyer sketches Satan's path through four historical periods, in each as a disrupter of the social forces through already powerful male leaders. Dreyer associates the figure of Christ with female figures, and the photography and composition anticipate his later Passion of Joan of Arc. Greatly inspired by D.W. Griffiths' Intolerance. Silent with English title cards, music score, and color tinting. Carl Theodor Dreyer---Denmark---1920---121 mins.
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MICHAEL (1924 DREYER)
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A great, aging artist succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany. "Dreyer's study of passion and loneliness could be considered the first film of his mature period" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films). Cinematography by Karl Freund and Rudolph Mate. Silent with English intertitles. Carl Theodor Dreyer---Germany---1924---92 mins.
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MICHAEL (1924)
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A great, aging artist succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany. "Dreyer's study of passion and loneliness could be considered the first film of his mature period" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films). Cinematography by Karl Freund and Rudolph Mate. Silent with English intertitles. Carl Theodor Dreyer---Germany---1924---92 mins.
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PARSON'S WIDOW
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The humorous side of Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc) is revealed in this early silent feature. Sofren, an aspiring parson, wants to marry his love, but her father won't permit a marriage until Sofren has a ministry. When he's hired by a rural congregation, he sees marriage in his sights, until he learns of a local custom that allows the widow of the deceased former pastor to marry his successor. Filmed in the 17th-century museum village of Lillehammer, Norway. Restored from an original 35mm print and speed-corrected. Also released as The Witch Woman. Includes two Dreyer shorts, remastered from 35mm prints: They Caught the Ferry (1948, 12 mins.), on driver safety, and Thorvaldsen (1949, 11 mins.), about the Carl Theodor Dreyer---Sweden---1920---71 mins.
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PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
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For this austere and anguished recreation of Joan of Arc's trial, Dreyer and cameraman Rudolph Mate employed extreme close-ups and zero makeup.
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PRESIDENT/ CARL TH. DREYER
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The stunning debut feature from master director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Based on a novel by Karl Emil Franzos, this early silent follows the life of Karl Victor von Sendlingen (Halvard Hoff), President of the Court in his Danish town. Many years after deserting his pregnant lover, von Sendlingen is faced with the difficult task of presiding over his illegitimate daughter's trial. Themes of guilt, penitence, and single parenthood reappear again and again in Dreyer's famous oeuvre. Musical score and accompaniment by Ronen Thalmay. Silent with Danish and English intertitles. Carl Theodor Dreyer---Denmark---1919---89 mins.
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VAMPYR (DREYER)
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Vampyr tells with extraordinary images the nightmarish story of a young man who unwittingly becomes involved with two sisters and their father, all victims of a vampire. Dreyer has transformed LeFanu's horror tale Camilla into an abstract meditation on the theme of death, and his brilliant use of shadow, light, camera movement and settings are as unnerving today as they were upon this sinister film's release over 75 years ago. "A great vampire film. Dreyer preys upon our subconscious fears...its mood is evocative, dreamy, spectral" (Pauline Kael). In German with optional English Carl Theodor Dreyer---Denmark---1932---75 mins.
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